In honor of Jeff and I buying our first house tomorrow—AND in honor of this awesome time of year called "spring"—I decided to do a post inspired by spring. I may be jumping the gun a little bit but I don't care. I planted some seeds, oh yes I did. I am so confident that summer is on its way that I am forcing the greenery along. My new backyard will be green with plants. So I pushed some moving READ MORE

WAY back in December, Alison had a Birthday. In honor of the day that Scoops came into this world, I cooked up this bag for her to keep her ever growing collection of yarns, skeins, hooks and things of that sort in. The outside felt is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. I think that is pretty cool. The inside fabric screamed "SCOOPS" to me so I just had to use it. Although it is not made of anything READ MORE

Guess what? It was my good friend Cam's birthday last Friday and in honor of her special day I made her this special owl pillow. Cam loves owl's more than most things so I thought this would be a fitting gift.I borrowed some inspiration from a few different owl pillow's I saw on flickr and came up with my own version. This pillow is made of felt and love, AND... I got to use my sewing machine again. READ MORE

I grabbed my sewing machine from my mom's house on Tuesday night after picking up Finn for the day, where it had been sitting for the last few years. I tried to use it one time like five years ago and became overwhelmed by the bobbin, so I gave up. Now here I am five years later trying to figure out how to use this damn thing, and I haven't actually successfully sewn anything since I was 10 years old. READ MORE